From: Simon Oosthoek <wmc_simon@fastmail.fm>
To: hadi@cyberus.ca
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
herman.elfrink@ti-wmc.nl
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] FLAME: external kernel module for L2.5 meshing
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 12:53:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44758CA8.2030502@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1148496189.5325.33.camel@jzny2>
jamal wrote:
> Essentially you are extending the broadcast domain i.e a bridge within
> on top of a bridge. I would question the scalability of such a beast
> in the presence of many nodes. Also take a look at some of the work
> Radia Perlman (who invented bridging really) is up to these days.
>
>
Hi Jamal
I agree with your analysis, and recently I read an interesting interview
with her (I think it was linked from slashdot, an interview with the
"mother of the Internet ;-) I'm not sure her work (I don't exactly
recall the specifics) is applicable to our problem though.
Regarding the scalability, I think it rather depends on the number of
hops how usable FLAME is. I don't think it would scale well to a campus
or city wide network, but in the case of a few mobile nodes, it has very
little overhead both in bandwidth and delay.
Cheers
Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-25 10:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-23 14:07 [ANNOUNCE] FLAME: external kernel module for L2.5 meshing Herman Elfrink
2006-05-23 14:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-05-23 14:51 ` Simon Oosthoek
2006-05-23 15:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-23 15:20 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-23 14:48 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-23 14:41 ` Simon Oosthoek
2006-05-23 14:55 ` Erik Mouw
2006-05-23 15:00 ` Simon Oosthoek
2006-05-23 15:14 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-30 6:42 ` Herman Elfrink
2006-05-30 8:43 ` Herman Elfrink
2006-05-23 16:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-05-23 17:43 ` Simon Oosthoek
2006-05-24 18:43 ` jamal
2006-05-25 10:53 ` Simon Oosthoek [this message]
2006-05-25 15:38 ` jamal
2006-05-30 7:01 ` Herman Elfrink
2006-05-24 20:50 ` Pavel Machek
2006-05-25 9:36 ` Simon Oosthoek
2006-05-30 8:29 ` Herman Elfrink
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